Writing about the process of Building Up Thinking Kreation Website

Reason Number 0ne

I am writing this blog post simply because I enjoy writing, I journal everyday, okay, at least most days. I loving putting my thoughts and ideas on paper, and in this case on a blog post. Since I was in high school I always wanted to have my own blog and here I am today writing a blog post. This is just the beinging of great content. So I am writing today about my thought process of this specific blog post and about the process of building up my own website through wix. I also am writing this blog post as an excuse for me to actually starting doing something about the feeling and the desire of starting a blog.

I know now that everything we do in this world and the relation of that doing is to some extent a form of a comment. Hence, at times it is very difficult to start something because deep down there is that uncertainty of starting something and not finishing it. As I am sitting in my institution's computer lab that is chilly, quiet, and low lighting because of shades of trees outside, I feel like I want to stop what I am doing because I know publishing this I will certainly come with its unknown challenges and I have to take all the responsibilities that will comes with it. People might have expectations that I should be constantly posting, some might say once a week, some twice a month and some might even say I shouldn't really care about other people's expectations and I should post whenever I want. I don't know as of yet what will be those expectations, but what I do know is that expectations are part of us as humans and we expect things all the time, especially when a person does or say something to you unprovoked.

So no matter how much you think you 'don't care about what people think' news flash YOU DO! As I continue to write this I am also preparing myself, not only for the expectations of others but also for myself. For me to grow I need to take a step but for me to continue to move forward I need to make progressive decisions. I need to always opt for a route that will make me grow, make decisions that promotes growth. If posting everyday, weekly, monthly or even yearly, whichever the case it might be, as long as it promotes growth then I need to be consistent in that decision, trying to make sure I keep the end of my bargain as people will be expecting. By taking such a decision own my own and thinking also on how it will prompt growth, both for me and my readers then I balance my lifestyle with people around me - which in this case, my fellow readers. Maybe I should come up with a better term, a more intimate term unlike 'my reader' in which I feel bit weirded out by it at this moment. But I will find it as time goes but for now I will stick to this one.

To now conclude my first reasoning of this blog post Reason One: I am writing this blog post because as I am editing my home page, in which I want to put my blog since it is one of the essential pages in this website and so I wanted to see how it will look if I put everything in place and so writing this blog post seemed like the best way to go for, and I went for it, and I am just simply writing.

I am not done with this blog post. Obviously, because it's a process blog post so I will continue to edit it until I am completely done with the website. I will be adding other reasons as we go.

I been working on this website for almost a year now and I am only finding a proper look for it now. I have had technical setbacks but nothing compared to my mind refusing to actually do the work. Sometimes the reason would be that I am lazy but in most cases I realised it was because I lacked understanding of why I wanted to build a website, and other times it would be the aesthetic of it how I wanted it to look, what feel I want to give and what exactly am I going to put in my website. Essentially, what I am saying is that I wasn't and didn't plan my website, at least in the first part of it. However, now that I know better and that I have a clearer goal on the why's, what, how's, and the do's and don'ts of building up my website I manage to finish up my website in no less than a month, this was because I continued to have technical issues, so this means I could have finished it in a week, after I started from scratch. So, in this post I will be sharing my process of making this website possible.

When I was a child I thought like a child but now I am a man so I have got to do what men do.

Reason Number Two

One of the things that makes sense to all of us at this current times when we doing or starting something, in which is a cliche, is knowing "why" you doing it. Even though this might be common sense to many of us, it is not common practice. In the early days of this website I didn't know my why or at least didn't have an understanding of my why - Why do I want a website? Why is a website important for me and to me? These are some of the questions I didn't answer until the later stage of working on the website, or even if I did, I didn't dwell as much on them. I didn't see much importance in having to answer the questions with honesty and attention. I am realising that many of us fall into this trap, not seeing that how you start is as important as starting itself. Now I have started over because I lost my energy to go on, but now since I start with proper mindset here I am writing this to tell you that 'starting with why is important'. This also applies in all areas of life, have a why when starting something.

For this website I wanted something simple, happy, welcoming and that will make someone want to stay longer in my website, and so far I can say I have achieved that part since my mother is four eyes :D and even her can see my website properly. I know there's room for improvement, but it works. Building up this website is important to me in multiple ways, firstly, the process of building up a well done and a proper website is particularly special to me as person and as an artist, because I built it myself. Secondly, as an artist who is every experimental and explorative with mediums I found it very difficult to post my work on instagram, reason being the algorithm and also because people what to see a consistent post kind of look, posting similar kind of artworks, and so I felt and continue to feel as though I can't post my different styles. This is very true also in the art world, where people expect you to stick to one kind of voice - to stick to one painting style, or one medium of choice - and once you try to push these boundaries you get shun upon. This website then functions as a way to mitigate this conflict between the two binaries - self interest and what people expect of me. It also then becomes a cornerstone from which everything is coming from. In other words it is a starting point of uploading my diffident kinds of works online without feeling disregarded or excluded, then from here I can decided where, what and how I am going to post on my socials. This then brings me to my third and last point on why this website is important to build and have. This reason you can find it on the welcome page of the website.

Welcome to Thinking Kreation Studios a digital hub that is directly inspired by creative thoughts, positive experiences, happy truths, ways of observing the world and the joy of creating. The space for being, doing, thinking and creating. A digital archive by Tebogo Khalo, as a human being and as a Creative.

Reason Number Three

Now that I have established my personal reasons of building up this website, I want to now expand more on the process of building up this website. To also make it clear why I was able to build it up in such a short time after a long time of building it up. As I have mentioned above, I fell into the pit of not desiring to continue to finish up this website even when I was consistently working on it. It was as though I was running in circles, not seeing any improvements or progress even though I was adding things to it. I would add then remove, change then unchanged, work then stop working, it was like moving forward to only end up in one place, the 'same place'. So, there came a point where I decided to stop completely, thinking I will just hire a professional to do it for me, and I stop I really did. For a while I was saving up money to be able to pay for the hiring, and even so I felt that wasn't what I wanted to go for since I believe that even professionals wouldn't make it look the way I would love to see it, I know they could do better than I did but they would have not given me the feeling I am having right now as I am writing this. It is one of the most beautiful feeling to have, doing, building and creating something yourself or being part of it. It is quite encouraging and inspiring.

Nonetheless, as I got over the edge wanting to do this by myself I knew from there that help is something I need to continue progressively moving forward. At this stage I knew why I want to build a website, but I didn't how to go about giving it the feel I wanted it to have and what It needed to have it. This is where research comes in, to rescue me from the thoughts of not knowing and the fears of the unknown. So I started looking at other people's websites. At this point I knew what I want for my website and so I knew where to look. I do my research in relation to the kind of aesthetic look - fonts, colour, images - I am going for, and the kind of layout I know will work best for my website. This means extensively looking at other websites you found something that interested you and you think it can work in your website. Looking at the fonts, colours and layout. From there I work seeing what will work on the website then I use it, suitably fitting it for the aesthetic look and feel of my website. Obviously, this will be completely different from person to person depending the kind of look you want in your website and what kind of website you have or want to build.

“If I only had an hour to chop down a tree, I would spend the first 45 minutes sharpening my axe.” – Abraham Lincoln.

At this stage I am just mapping my website I am not yet doing anything. I am planning and seeing which layout works best. I normally use a hand drawing flat-plan, it is 2023 so you can use more modern technological tools, I just prefer traditional route. establishing how many clicks it will get to a particular page with my flat plan. Once I was done with this part, I then gathered all the images I am planning to use in my website and create folders to organise to which page each photo is assigned to. After the planning and organising I then start working on editing the website. Since I was already familiar with how's of using the wix tools it was fairly easy for me to put things where I wanted to place them.

I realised I was close to finishing when I started to write this blog post and putting my focus developing my blog, continuing to write other blog posts which some are still in the idea stage.

Then here I am now writing the concluding parts of my blog post, and this also means I am also coming to the end parts of building up this website. This was really a beautiful experience, I wish I could have documented this from the start, but I guess this blog post will suffice. There will be many more experience I am going to write about. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much I enjoyed writing it. It was fun and lovely.

I will be seeing in the next post stay tune.

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